Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Germany
The Abbess of Rupertsberg
Mystic, visionary, poet
Treatise on science, medicine, theology
Healer, Herbalist
A "Renaissance Woman" well ahead of her time
Morality Play
"Play of the Virtues"
translated by Barbara Newman
In the pupil of chastity's eye
I beheld you
untouched.
Generous maid! Know that it's God
who broods over you.
For heaven flooded you like
unbodied speech
and you gave it a tongue.
Glistening
lily: before all worlds
you lured the supernal one.
How he reveled
in your charms! how your beauty
warmed to his caresses
till you gave your breast to his child.
And your womb held joy when heaven's
harmonies rang from you,
a maiden with child by God,
for in God your chastity blazed.
Yes your flesh held joy like the grass
when the dew falls, when heaven
freshens its green: O mother
of gladness, verdure of spring.
Ecclesia, flush with rapture! Sing
for Mary's sake, sing
for the maiden, sing
for God's mother. Sing!
untouched.
Generous maid! Know that it's God
who broods over you.
For heaven flooded you like
unbodied speech
and you gave it a tongue.
Glistening
lily: before all worlds
you lured the supernal one.
How he reveled
in your charms! how your beauty
warmed to his caresses
till you gave your breast to his child.
And your womb held joy when heaven's
harmonies rang from you,
a maiden with child by God,
for in God your chastity blazed.
Yes your flesh held joy like the grass
when the dew falls, when heaven
freshens its green: O mother
of gladness, verdure of spring.
Ecclesia, flush with rapture! Sing
for Mary's sake, sing
for the maiden, sing
for God's mother. Sing!
MORE POEMS: http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/H/HildegardofB/OigneeSpirit.htm
"O Lerusalem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irxG-GCV5Es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taanHO13WXE
Machaut
monophony
polyphony
Play of Virtues
(morality play)
Organum
Intervals of a fourth and a fifth underneath, sometimes a drone
700-900
1150-1200 School of Notre Dame
Written notation and rhythm
Syncopation
Guillaume de Machaut
Notre Dame Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
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